Winery Master Gardeners - The Sun Garden

The beautiful Sun Garden is taking shape.

Removing weeds from the garden beds.

Repairing the leaking water pipe.

Some sneaky parasites have snuck into the garden... you guessed it, the chipmunks are back! We had to collect the chipmunks by sneaking up on them from behind and catch them in the sack. They are scared of you and your horse, so don't go too close to any of the holes. I enjoyed this quest and spent some time scaring the little critters, just to watch them jump into the air in fright and dive back into their hole. It reminded me of the old arcade game 'Gong a mole'. Once all chipmunks are collected, you take the little guys over to Steve's for release.

Chipmunks invade the garden.

It's fun scaring the chipmunks into their hole.

Close up of a Cute little parasite.

Bjorn wants stones to build a pond.

The pond is completed.

Harvest the flowers in the Sun Garden.

Today we are going to add some beautiful vases and plant some fantastic bushes in the Sun Garden. First we need to mark out where the vases should be using measuring sticks and then prepare the flower beds with fertilizer where the bushes will go.

Putting out measuring sticks.

The completed Sun Garden.

Now that the Sun Garden is complete, Bjorn and Agatha want to continue their work on restoring the rest of the gardens, it's their duty. The next phase, the farm house. Now we ride over to the Baroness and ask for her permission to proceed with the garden project.

"At best I thought they would clear up the flower beds but it sounds like they have completely restored everything. It is a big responsibility and requires experienced tradesmen. The vineyard has a long history and I wont have hobby-builders destroying a part of that history with shabby work. For them to continue I will need evidence of the quality of their work.Let's do this. Around here on the estate we have empty white flower pots. If Bjorn and Agnetha plant some of their flowers in them I will get a chance to see how they look. If I find the flowers are of acceptable quality then they can continue in their project."

Return to Bjorn and let him know what the Baroness has requested.

Plant some flowers at the winery? Doesn't she trust us? This will take up valuable time we could spend working on the Moon Garden.Here, this is the most beautiful of the fabulous pansies. When she sees them she is going to faint from pride. How could she possibly say no to such perfection. Take the pansies and plant them in the pots.

Planting flowers around the Manor

Planting flowers around the Manor

Once all the pansies are planted, we head on over to the Baroness to get her thoughts

Hmm ......those are actually quite uncommonly beautiful pansies. Bjorn and Agnetha have green thumbs of some kind. Let Bjorn and Agnetha know they have my blessing to continue with their project and that it would be wonderful if they could put more flowers out around the winery when they can.

Bjorn is more than happy to hear the good news, but we don't have time to stand around chatting. We need to get started on the new project and for this we speak to Agnetha about the Moon Garden.